Are you the kind of person who responds "How can I help?" when you see wrongs needing righting in this world? Join the outrage, and help us do just that: donate one week's coffee budget! The proponents of the EQUITAS Disabled ...

Are you the kind of person who responds "How can I
help?" when you see wrongs needing righting in this world? Join
the outrage, and help us do just that: donate one week's coffee
budget! The proponents of the EQUITAS Disabled Soldiers
Funding Society ["EQUITAS"] are dedicated to the Cause of
disadvantaged, disabled veterans. Our fundamental goal is to raise the
funds needed to backstop legal action determined to reverse the
Government of Canada's position on the New Veterans Charter [NVC]. We
are working to get the system changed to correct glaring deficiencies
that are causing hardship to many injured 'New' veterans, because
their lump-sum compensation is so low. Many such settlements are
significantly lower than the standard in modern life applicable in
Civil Court awards and workers' compensation, or compared with
life-long pensions formerly applicable to Canadian military combatants.

Please consider making common cause with EQUITAS. Assist us by
making a donation in support of the many disabled Canadian veterans
who are hurting. Your financial contribution can help the
prosecution of a Class Action lawsuit that is seeking a better deal
for veterans with both physical and mental disabilities than what the
NVC provides. Our campaign would be fully funded if you, and only 5
thousand others, were to donate the equivalent of what your favourite
daily Frappuccino or Timmy’s costs for just one week!

Major Mark Campbell a double-amputee career soldier from
Edmonton, Alberta,, speaks out about the need for Canadians to lobby
their Federal Government to overhaul the New Veterans Charter and,
in particular, to provide greater, more fair, financial security for
injured and disabled veterans. Observing Major Campbell is Kevin
Barry (a PTSD sufferer from Vancouver). Together with Mark Campbell,
Dan Scott, Aaron Bedard, Gavin Flett and Brad Quast, he is a
representative plaintiff in the lawsuit currently underway before
the B.C. Supreme Court. That legal action, now also before the B.C.
Court of Appeal (because the Government of Canada has applied to
overturn a ruling favourable to the representative plaintiffs), once
successful will certify 'class-action' proceedings that will seek to
invalidate the New Veterans Charter's seriously deficient lump-sum
compensation payment system, in order to improve the benefits for
Canadian veterans from coast to coast to
coast.

[Photo by Larry Jenkins]

EQUITAS means fairness. Our Society seeks fairness for New
Veterans (average age under 30, most of them injured in
Afghanistan), who have received a bad deal from the Canadian
Government. We were founded to help make right what is so wrong in
the treatment of too many soldiers whom Canada sent into battle,
only to let them down with financial settlements that are
insufficient and unjust - instead of lifelong pensions - on their
return home disabled.

When they hear this story about disabled veterans being
disadvantaged, fair-minded Canadians like you feel outrage. Rightly
so, from coast-to-coast people believe it unacceptable how our
country is treating many who became casualties after volunteering
for military service to protect our democratic values. By any
objective measure the compensation awarded since 2006 under the NVC
to numerous soldiers with permanent injuries is much too low -
especially when compared with accepted standards in contemporary
society applied to workers compensation and Court settlements. Most
disabled veterans' settlements under the NVC are an average of 50%
less than what past veterans received under the Pension Act. Since
too many of these recent settlements are neither fair nor reasonable
by any objective measure, EQUITAS advocated for a political solution
in Ottawa since 2011. Rebuffed by political decision-makers in the
current Conservative Government, EQUITAS therefore had no choice
than to encourage frustrated veteran recipients feeling
short-changed to pursue their only alternative, seeking legal
redress in Court.

The money EQUITAS is now raising will cover the essential
disbursement costs in connection with litigation currently before
the British Columbia Court of Appeal - which will be taken all the
way to the Supreme Court of Canada, if necessary. The monies EQUITAS
is raising to underwrite expenses is essential to back up the legal
counsel being provided 'pro bono' to disabled veteran claimants by
national law firm Miller Thomson LLP, led by Don Sorochan, Q.C.

Thank you for making a contribution, however large or small,
towards helping the worthy Cause of struggling veterans' legal
recourse. And for telling your family and friends about our EQUITAS
campaign to right a serious wrong.

For further information about this Cause, please go to:
www.equitassociety.ca and 'like' us on the EQUITAS page on
Facebook. We also urge you to tune in to CKNW-Radio (AM-980 - The
Corus Radio Network: or, www.cknw.com) in Vancouver daily from 4-6pm
for "The World Today" with Jon McComb, to join the
"Fight Back For Wounded Veterans" Movement
launched on October 4, 2013.

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